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Fresh

The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is below 60%.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or
higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for
limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

Lav Diaz's call-to-arms to artists speaks to the present just as it depicts a terrible period in the Philippines' past. "Season of the Devil" is still a gruelling, advanced-level watch, but one that delivers beauty and horror in equal measure. &dash; The Playlist - EDIT

For all the artists that populate Hong Sang-soo's cinematic universe, the director has yet to foreground the creative psyche in as thought-provoking of a manner as he does in "Grass."&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Though undeniably watchable... Mateo Gil's film fails to rise above the well-trodden genre film language nor does it meaningfully contribute to its central existential questions on mortality.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig, Deniz Gamze Ergüven's sophomore film is a tonal disaster, jerking from shrill melodrama to screwball comedy and always at the most inappropriate of moments.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Although the existence of "Félicité," might only possible because the resources of the French and larger European film industry, its humanist, musical vibrancy makes a major case for the significance and individuality of African cinema.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Perhaps the most salient and unsung thread in "Toni Erdmann" examined the shifting economic frontiers in Europe. This becomes the point of departure for "Western" which further scrutinizes the human scale of these permeable borders.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

The nonlinear plotting does a major disservice to "You Disappear," which plays out like a made-for-TV adaptation of Scandinavian paperback you might glance over at an airport bookstore: all flash, no substance.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Unfortunately, some fumbled melodrama and the thorny issue of nationalism that hung over Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" compromise the finer impulses in "In This Corner of the World."&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Even when director Dome Karukoski isn't as successful in his telling of Touko Laaksonen's story, he never sanitizes the images or language for straight audiences. In this regard, "Tom of Finland" does justice to its subject.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT

Jonathan Olshefski's "Quest" is nothing if not timely, and the resulting symmetry to the narrative (which commences with President Obama's campaign in 2008) is deeply satisfying.&dash; The Playlist - EDIT